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M*A*S*H :: The General Flipped at Dawn (03x01)

Episode Information

Title:

The General Flipped at Dawn

Episode #:

03x01

Production Number:

B308

Original Airdate:

Tuesday September 10th, 1974

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Episode Crew
Director:	Larry Gelbart
Writer:	James Fritzell Everett Greenbaum

Episode Summary

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Harry Morgan, in an early appearance, plays a whack job general who wants to move the 4077th five miles down the road--and closer to the front lines. The general ends up charging Hawkeye with mutiny.

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Guest Stars

Guest Stars
•Jamie Farr	played	Corporal/Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger	Recurring (20th appearance)
•Lynette Mettey	played	Nurse Baker	Recurring (5th appearance)
•William Christopher	played	Father John Patrick Francis Mulcahy	Recurring (28th appearance)
•Brad Trumbull (2)	played	Colonel Atkins
•Dennis Erdman	played	Harrison
•Harry Morgan	played	Major General Bartford Hamilton Steele
•Theodore Wilson	played	Marty Williams

Main Cast

•Alan Alda	played	Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
•Wayne Rogers (1)	played	Captain John Francis Xavier "Trapper" McIntyre
•McLean Stevenson	played	Lt. Colonel Henry Braymore Blake
•Loretta Swit	played	Major Margaret J. "Hot Lips" Houlihan
•Larry Linville	played	Major Franklin Delano Marion Burns
•Gary Burghoff	played	Corporal Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly

Episode Notes

The producers were impressed with Harry Morgan's portrayal of the whacked out general and went on to cast him as Colonel Sherman T. Potter who assumed command of the 4077th in season 4 after Henry Blake's departure.

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